The New Dictionary of ThoughtsRavenio Books, 2015 M01 19 A cyclopedia of quotations from the best authors of the world, both ancient and modern, alphabetically arranged by subjects. |
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... weak understanding are so sensible of that weakness, as to be able to make a good use of it.—Rochefoucauld. We are often able because we think we are able.—J. Hawes. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators ...
... weak understanding are so sensible of that weakness, as to be able to make a good use of it.—Rochefoucauld. We are often able because we think we are able.—J. Hawes. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators ...
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... weak and fruitless: so doth the best man if he be not cut short in his desires, and pruned with afflictions.—Bp. Hall. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of ...
... weak and fruitless: so doth the best man if he be not cut short in his desires, and pruned with afflictions.—Bp. Hall. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of ...
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... weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity and weakness.—Cicero. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an illnatured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of ...
... weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity and weakness.—Cicero. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an illnatured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of ...
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... weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.— G. S. Hillard. It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap, that so much misery is caused in the ...
... weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.— G. S. Hillard. It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap, that so much misery is caused in the ...
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... weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.—Tryon Edwards. Let us he of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.—J. R. Lowell. Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of ...
... weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.—Tryon Edwards. Let us he of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.—J. R. Lowell. Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of ...
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